Comments on: Husband of Sandra Day O’Connor finds love at Alzheimer’s facility.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:58:06 +0000

i think that the fact that Sandra found love is very sweet.

By: Mary Emma Allen

Mary Emma Allen — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:28:53 +0000

Thanks for stopping by, Gloria, and sharing your thoughts. I wrote some more about this topic on Alzheimer’s Notes:
The John and Sandra Day O’Connor Alzheimer’s Story (http://www.alzheimersnotes.com/the-john-and-sandra-day-oconnor-alzheimers-story/) and “Romantic” Attachments Not Uncommon for Alzheimer’s Patients (http://www.alzheimersnotes.com/romantic-attachments-not-uncommon-for-alzheimers-patients/). However, because the O’Connors are such a prominent couple, the story made the national media and was given a rather sensational slant.

By: Gloria

Gloria — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:07:04 +0000

I agree, it’s not really that he’s found “love” with another woman in the same way that a non-Alzheimer’s person might. The media just can’t handle coverage of something without sensationalism.

By: Mary Emma Allen

Mary Emma Allen — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:01:53 +0000

Does he really find love or just a friend/companion who is at close proximity. Also, as people fall deeper into Alzheimer’s, they forget the people they knew most recently. This lady may remind him of someone he knew in his former years. Or she may remind him of Sandra. I think it’s very unthoughtful of the media to make such a big deal of it and to write it up this way. My mom thought someone else in the nursing home was my dad for awhile. (My dad had passed away several years before.) She got very annoyed with this man because he wasn’t polite. Mother kept telling him to be nicer to people and called him by my dad’s name. But I didn’t make a big deal of it and soon Mother passed to another stage of Alzheimer’s and forgot all about him.